TY - BOOK ID - 5017036 TI - Growth and decline in Colchester, 1300-1525 PY - 1986 SN - 0521305721 0521073154 0511896484 9780521305723 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Colchester (England) KW - Economic conditions KW - Politics and government KW - Arts and Humanities KW - History KW - Colchester (England) - Economic conditions KW - Colchester (England) - Politics and government KW - Economic conditions. KW - Politics and government. KW - Colchester, Eng. KW - Colchester (Essex) KW - Camulodunum (England) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5017036 AB - This is a study of one of England's principal cloth towns during the late Middle Ages. It draws extensively upon unpublished records in Colchester and elsewhere, and is the first history of a medieval English town to analyse in conjunction the relationships between overseas trade, urban development and changes in rural society. First it describes Colchester in the earlier fourteenth century, its trade, its agricultural setting and its form of government. The book then shows how cloth-making grew in Colchester after the Black Death and how the population increased until about 1414. The implications of this for the government of the borough and for the town's role in the local economy are discussed. The last section shows that Colchester's growth was not sustained through the fifteenth century, and examines some of the causal links between economic contraction, institutional change in the borough and agrarian depression in the surrounding countryside. ER -